By the way, Lumen is awesome. They've been working on it for about three years, and it shows. You should totally check it out: https://github.com/sctb/lumen

By the way, Lumen is awesome. They've been working on it for about three years, and it shows. You should totally check it out: https://github.com/sctb/lumen https://github.com/sctb/lumen Imagine a language whose startup time was faster than python / ruby / node, yet could be bent into whatever shape you wanted, thanks to macros. If you install luajit and run `make; make test`: $ time make test js: 525 passed, 0 failed lua: 525 passed, 0 failed real 0m0.153s user 0m0.119s sys 0m0.033s Lumen is wicked fast. Here's something cool: Our server is going to be running Lumen via luajit, yet it will serve a copy of itself compiled as javascript, which can execute in the browser. Same language, same syntax -- it just runs "in" two different languages at once! You'd think that it would be incredibly hard to do that well. Maybe it is, but they make it look easy.